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Greater Whole
Synergy can be loosely defined as two or more things operating as a greater whole. In unity (and people are very much into the unity buzzword these days), reality cannot operate outside of its nature. Everything is constantly operating as a greater whole, but we think that any given “this” has nothing to do with…
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The World Is Whole
As people focus there awareness on any single facet of the world, it comes to fill our minds. Define our experience, if only for a moment. But as we become more accustomed, those moments get longer and longer until this thing that we were observing from the outside is now something we are immersed in,…
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Do You Feel Whole?
We exist in a fabric of being, not of thinking. Our thinking can potentially derive its content from this pre-existing being. There was something there that was thrown out yet again in the age of reason, in the name of freedom, in the supposed service of truth. Have you felt it? Do you perhaps feel…
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Include the Whole Picture
Our world has three faces. A dreamy heaven where wishes are fulfilled. A nightmarish hell where guilt is punished and fear is rewarded with its expectations, and the bright and potentially blinding “real world.” Can you have the real world as we know it without the other two? What would happen if humans had no dreams?…
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We Feel Whole
Our minds have evolved in ways that we are not consciously aware of most of the time. One of the ruling factors of that unconscious, but still very tangible facet of the human mind, is that we are especially sensitive to intentional behavior. Scientists say we have “theory of mind.” Instinctively, our brains constantly scan…
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The Whole Ecosystem Sings
Today, we are talking about animals as healers. We live in a world that is still alive fortunately, and before much of the change humanity would come to bring into the world, life was the primary rule. Every living thing is a part of a greater whole. An ecosystem is not itself an organism, but…
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Neidan Whole System
Neidan sounds like a comprehensive system. Indeed, wu xing is the cosmologic element of what is ultimately an integrated body of wisdom. Everything that occurs in the body is thought to reflect everything that can occur outside of the body and to resolve itself in the same way. So rather than there being a difference…
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Whole Mind
So what does it mean to have a whole mind? A peaceful mind? Integration. What Jung called “Individuation.” Basically, acceptance of all parts of ourselves. We speak of digesting thoughts and ideas. Information. Which is a form of disintegration. Scientific method is itself ritualized disintegration. Why is it that we recognize disintegration as understanding but…